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BILLABONG "FLAUNT IT" TOUR TO STOP AT STOWE ON MARCH 1 - THE ONLY STOP IN THE UNITED STATES!

Billabong’s ‘Flaunt It’ Series Comes to Stowe, VT
Only U.S. Stop for the All-Girls Snowboard Event

STOWE, VERMONT – On Saturday March 1, Stowe will be the only U.S. stop on this year’s Billabong ‘Flaunt It’ tour. Billabong Flaunt It is an All-Girls Slopestyle Jam snowboard contest that’s aimed at being fun & social, while providing over $10,000 in cash and prizes for the girls to vie for.

Each of the five events are held in the resort’s custom built parks with the Stowe contest taking place in the terrain park on North Slope. The slopestyle is a jam format where all riders are allowed as many runs as they want within the time allotted. Judges, including Billabong pro rider Tara Dekides, will be watching throughout the day to see who the strongest riders are. The contest has two parts; a slopestyle jam in the morning and a rail jam in the afternoon. Cash and prizes will be given out based on best scores, best tricks and style. The overall winner from Stowe will also receive entry to the series finals in Tremblant, Quebec, including airfare and accommodations.

Entry forms are available online at www.billabonggirls.com/flauntit and registration is limited to the first thirty entries. Additional information about the March 1 event in Stowe is also available by calling the resort at 800-253-4754.

AT THE HEIGHT OF SKI SEASON, STOWE IS HONORED FOR THEIR GOLF COURSE

GOLF Magazine Names Stowe Mountain Club in “Top Ten New Courses in North America”

STOWE, VERMONT – The January 2008 Issue of GOLF Magazine has designated Stowe Mountain Club as one of the ten best new golf courses to open in North America this past year. Selected by GOLF magazine’s course-ranking panelists, editors and players in the field, Stowe Mountain Club’s top ten honor is distinguished by being one of the few private clubs with unique accessibility to the public.

Created by renowned golf course designer Bob Cupp, the 18-hole, par 72 “wilderness” course winds dramatically along the lower reaches of Mount Mansfield and Spruce Peak, to an elevation of more than 1800 feet. “The course basks in postcard views of Mt. Mansfield, Vermont’s highest point, but the off-course vistas are exceeded only by the on-course challenges,” wrote GOLF magazine editor Joe Passov.

The resort course is available to Stowe Mountain Club members, as well as guests of the extraordinary new Stowe Mountain Lodge, a luxury resort hotel being built at the base of Mount Mansfield and Spruce Peak and set to open in Spring of 2008. Stowe Mountain Club is a four-season private club with unprecedented golf, alpine and spa facilities located at Spruce Peak at Stowe, Vermont’s newest luxury resort and residential community.  All residential owners at Spruce Peak, including owners of the Front Four residences at Stowe Mountain Lodge, are eligible to join Stowe Mountain Club.

Stowe Mountain Club was designed as an extremely environmentally conscious project, and is the first in Vermont to achieve Audubon Signature Sanctuary Certification from Audubon International. The golf course, for instance, is surrounded by 2,000 protected acres of pristine land.  No homes were built along the course, affording a remarkably natural golfing experience, and allowing for protected habitat within the surrounding woodlands. Another centerpiece of this environmental effort is state-of-the-art course irrigation, recycled water from the man-made Peregrine Lake, which also serves as the source of snowmaking water for Stowe Mountain Resort.

Course designer Bob Cupp commented, “Once every few decades, a spectacular sight for golf appears. Such is the case at the foot of Mount Mansfield in Stowe, Vermont. This land provides a feeling of grandeur in the long views, and yet certain coziness within the engulfing cradle of Mount Mansfield and Spruce Peak.  It provides members and guests with unforgettable golf in the hills of Vermont.”  The proud designer went on to add, “There may be no finer collection of great short par fours anywhere in America.”

Stowe Mountain Club spans nearly 6,500 yards with a dramatic elevation gain (400’+), allowing for sweeping views of Peregrine Lake and the Little River Valley below.  The golf course is a regulation par 72 in the classic configurations of two par fives and two par threes on each nine and uses the slope in spectacular fashion, occasionally making short holes seem much longer. Additional course amenities include a 6,500 square-foot practice green and chipping area, built to USGA specifications, as well as a Golf Cottage, hosting a pro shop, dining and lounge and terrace. The course is overseen by Walter Frame, Director of Operations, Stowe Mountain Club and David Bennett, PGA, Director of Golf, Stowe Mountain Club.

About Stowe Mountain Lodge
The new Stowe Mountain Lodge is located at the heart of the lively Spruce Peak at Stowe alpine village in historic Stowe, Vermont.  Opening Spring 2008, the 139-room lodge will offer exclusive golf access to Stowe Mountain Club, a luxurious spa and wellness center, 12,100 square feet of meeting space, concierges available to anticipate every need, twice-daily housekeeping, 24-hour in-room dining and artisan-inspired cuisine. The lodge also will offer highly-customized services and personalized in-room amenities.  For more information, please contact Stowe Mountain Lodge at 802-253-3560 or visit www.stowemountainlodge.com.

About Spruce Peak at Stowe
Spruce Peak at Stowe is a new slope-side community that is well underway at the base of Spruce Peak and Mt. Mansfield in Stowe, Vermont.  The intimate alpine neighborhood boasts enviable homes for purchase, a world-class ski resort and spa, 18-hole golf course, performing arts center, dining and retail esplanade, swimming pool, ice skating rink and the new Stowe Mountain Lodge. For real estate opportunities call 802-253-0320 or visit www.sprucepeak.com. For more information about Stowe Mountain Club please call 802-253-4833 or visit www.stowemountainclub.com

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STOWE OFF TO BEST START IN A DECADE!

Stowe is Buried in Snow
Ski Area Off to Its Best Start in a Decade

12/18/07 STOWE, VT - From opening day which arrived ahead of schedule
thanks to heavy snowfall back in mid-November to right now, Stowe has
been the perfect picture of what you want a winter resort to be. Stowe's
latest snowstorm totaled 18-23" on Monday; bringing early season natural
snowfall totals to over nine feet and climbing. Snow banks are building
toward five feet along the road leading up to Mount Mansfield and Spruce
Peak at Stowe Mountain Resort with bottomless powder conditions on the
East's most authentic ski & ride mountains.

"You have got to be here to understand just how good this place has been
so far this winter," said Kim Brown, the skiing scribe of Stowe. "It
brings back memories of the epic start to the winter of 1997-98 when it
snowed for 27 days in December," Brown added.

Stowe Mountain Resort is now 100% open and in prime mid-winter
condition. With the Christmas holiday right around the corner resort and
town officials expect a boon holiday this year. Visitors planning a ski
trip this December can still take advantage of their advance sale
discount ticket program valid through the holiday week. For photos,
video and more info visit www.stowe.com

STOWE CONCURS...BEST START IN DECADES...NEW WEBSITE TO BOOT!

It’s All Good in Stowe
Snow, Accolades, a New Website, and More Snow

STOWE, VT – Nearly three feet of snow has fallen on Mt. Mansfield and Spruce Peak at Stowe Mountain Resort in the past week. The favorable winter weather really started over a month ago, when snowmaking operations kicked into high gear to prepare for another season at the Ski Capital of the East. Today, trails including Stowe’s famed Front Four are open with powder conditions and even the Cross Country Ski Center is open earlier than it’s been in many years. On Saturday, December 8, Stowe’s Gondola area will also open, upping the access for snow seekers to nearly all of Stowe’s authentic alpine terrain.

"This is one of our best beginnings in the past decade," comments Jeff Wise, Stowe’s communications director. "Seeing is believing right now, the mountain looks and feels like it does during the peak of any given season, it’s conspicuous for early December," Wise said.

Great snow isn’t all that Stowe has going for it these days. In the midst of a 400 million dollar development, Stowe is reenergized with new lifts, terrain, snowmaking, grooming and a soon to open luxury slopeside resort hotel named Stowe Mountain Lodge. That’s a lot to add to the East’s premier winter resort and a world-class destination.

Stowe Mountain Resort has been named the ninth best resort in North America according to the Condé Nast Traveler 2007 Ski Poll, the third best resort in the World for terrain and ticket value by Frommer’s, and the best resort in the East by Freeskier Magazine.

To celebrate the start of an epic winter Stowe has launched a new website, www.stowe.com
The aesthetically streamlined site is filled with new media, information and promotions like the Vacation Rewards Program, where tickets can be purchased at a 15% discount by ordering at least 7 days in advance. Stowe’s new online presence will also include a viral campaign called ‘Find Yours.’ The dynamic point-roll banners will enable people to share their Stowe experiences with friends.